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Mainframes and servers
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Working in IT, I find that the mainframe is much more reliable than a server.
I do not recall a mainframe "crashing" in the last 10 - 15 years but servers do fail on a more regular basis.
The mainframe still does a lot of the "number crunching".0 -
not sure where you get that idea from, the top 3 or 4 in the world certainly have a BIG reliance on mainframes and will do for some time, the smaller banks may get away with switching away but the legacy of the past few decades will take a long time t decomission
im a contractor for hbos and rbs, only talking from my past experiance, never really asked about hsbc as i dont spend much time on their site0 -
Thought RBS still had substantial mainframe systems - they were recruiting heaps of contractors 2 or 3 years ago.0
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